Perhaps I can make something of amends by posting on topic. Theists sometimes trot out the line "but the beginning of life on earth (they usually don't know the word abiogenesis) has only happened ONCE - how do you explain that, stupid atheist!?"
The fact of the matter is, as Darwin himself wrote:
The fact of the matter is, as Darwin himself wrote:
Quote:Darwin discussed the suggestion that the original spark of life may have begun in a "warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes." He went on to explain that "at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed."
